Background Material
Geometry and Topology in Electronic Structure
Theory 2013-2014
SISSA Lecture Notes (Obsolete and incomplete, 1996) A
Primer on Polarization Theory (by N. Spaldin, 2012)
A (very) different course with
the same title (J.E. Moore, Berkeley, 2009)
Notes on density matrices Lecture1:
Introduction Lecture2: IQHE
Lecture3: Berry-phase
Lecture4: Aharonov-Bohm
Lecture5: Modern electronic structure
Lecture6: Piezoelectricity Lecture7: Advanced lattice dynamics
Lecture8: Polarization th. I Lecture8bis:
Transport and polarization
Lecture9:
Polarization th. II
Lecture10: Th. of the
insulating state Lecture11:
Chern invariant Lecture12:
Orbital magnetization